Announcement… “The Meeting” 28 Jan 202028 Jan 2020 Flash fiction: literature in doses as small as a bullet...and as hard-hitting, if you do it right. And apparently I did: my very short story, "The Meeting," appeared today on…
Author post Local Poetry and a Cause for Optimism 24 Jan 2020 An odd and pleasing transaction: I had sent a short story to a magazine I found in one of the listings I use, and it was gently rejected the same…
Announcement… “Vengeance in Gray” 14 Jan 202014 Jan 2020 Here we go again! A new story published today: you can read "Vengeance in Gray," as well as a delightfully long list of poems, artworks, and other stories, in Backchannels…
Announcement… “The Day It Almost Snowed” 4 Jan 20209 Oct 2020 Looks like 2020's getting off to a rollicking start, with yet another story published! True, the last two were supposed to have been published in December, but they actually appeared…
Announcement… “Blame It on the Moon” 3 Jan 2020 Sure, the magazine's date says, "December 16, 2019," but, it didn't appear till today. So I count this publication as my first story to appear in 2020. It's in the…
Announcement “Burn Scar” 31 Dec 201931 Dec 2019 The last day of the year, and the last of twenty-four stories to be published in journals in 2019! My story, "Burn Scar," has just appeared in an online and…
book review Mini Review: “Always Happy Hour,” by Mary Miller 27 Dec 2019 Always Happy Hour, by Mary Miller Always Happy Hour is a satisfying and ultimately dismaying collection of short stories that could have been a country & western song, and probably…
book review Mini-Review: Yiyun Li’s “Where Reasons End” 18 Dec 2019 I just finished Yiyun Li's Where Reasons End, which might be called a conceptual novel, an experimental novel, perhaps an experimental memoir, or perhaps just a heart-wrenching and intellectually-challenging good…
Announcement… “Love in Three Rooms” 16 Dec 2019 My short story, "Love in Three Rooms," has just appeared in Fear of Monkeys, which describes itself as "a magazine of politically-conscious writing." And my story does turn on realizations…
book review Micro-Review: “Cities I Never Lived In,” by Sara Majka 12 Dec 201912 Dec 2019 I just finished a collection of linked short stories, Cities I've Never Lived in, by Sara Majka. This is a collection of linked short storiesI heard of from some ten-best…
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